There are so MANY wonderful things in the new Holiday Catalog!!

These are some of the things I've made with my new toys. The designer series paper is Be of Good Cheer from the 2012-2013 IB&C.

Holiday Catalog 

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Holiday Catalog Stampin' Supplies List (PDF)

 Would you like to make the lovely ornament on the cover of the Holiday Catalog? You can buy the stamp and framelits sets as a bundle to save money!

Ornament Keepsakes stamp set $25.95 (clear mount)

Holiday Ornaments Framelits Dies $24.95

But as a bundle it’s only $42.95 that’s a savings of $7.95!

Ornament Keepsake bundlestamps & framelits, pg 3, clear mount #129950 OR wood  #129949

Another fun bundle that will save you money: Scentsational Season #129945 wood OR #129946 clear

Scentsational Season clear mount stamp set $14.95

Holiday Collection Framelits Dies $24.95

But as a bundle it’s only $32.95 that’s a savings of $6.95!

With the money you save on one of the bundles above, you can get the beautiful Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder!! pg 6, #127819

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I've been having lots of fun with these stamps and punches from the regular catalog too! Do you remember the things I made earlier with the Build a Bird punch? Well, I used it in the studio of my friend and Upline, Pam. Now, I have my very own:)

Bird Builder punch

Be of Good Cheer designer series paper

Flowering Flourishes stamp set. LOVE it!! I have a million ideas of what to do with it in my head, and two new sets of dies that I wanted to use too, so deciding on which idea to do was the hardest!

Flowering Flourishes stamp set

Easter Egg Template - All Cracked Up!

I woke up yesterday with a cracked egg in my head. No, for Easter silly! I don't know if it just came to me or if I saw a card like this at some point, but it was in my head and I had to make one. I even have a template for you, but don't get too excited, it's not a pretty computer generated template. It's hand-drawn and you may laugh. I couldn't draw it on the computer because when lightening hit the computers last fall, it fried them both. Of course when you replace, you get an updated operating system... and naturally some programs won't run on the newer version of Windows. Why would they? Because then Microsoft wouldn't get as many of our hard-earned dollars buying MORE software!!!  argh!  I decided I would not replace the drawing program I had. It's expensive and I'm retired. Soooo you just have to make due with my hand drawn template. If you are talented, you can improve or revise it. My friend Pam is an engineer and actually has a left-brain (you know, mechanical/analytical). She helped me figure out a better way to construct the opening with the paper fastener. I want you to know I worked on this thing alllll morning yesterday. I bet I made six different templates - seriously. See, I have NO left brain. I'd get to one step and it wouldn't work or looked goofy, so I'd figure out a better way to do it. Then Pam came up with a better closure and I came home and dug through the computer trash can to find a previous template.

This is just a prototype... a model. My next egg will look a bit neater.

The next one I can cut the decorative paper better with the template, and I think the flower or whatever image goes in the middle should be centered better. Image is from Impression Obsession, cardstock is Stampin' Up - Certainly Celery and Bashful Breeze. I have no earthly idea where I got the decorative paper, probably Hobby Lobby.

Opening the card reveals the inside. I used an embossing folder on the inside egg. (Sizzix, Tropical Paisley). I made the inside egg a bit smaller than the outside cracked egg so that it wouldn't show edges behind.

This is the inside egg.

This is the outside cracked egg. I cut this from cardstock.

This pattern is a bit smaller so that when you glue/tape the decorative paper on the cardstock, you have a border.

I scanned the templates into Photoshop. Since I no longer have a compatible draw/paint program, I could only save this as a jpeg so you may have to adjust the size a bit. On my computer it prints out the correct size.... but I print from Photoshop, so I'm not sure how it will work on your computer.

I hope you enjoy this, I thought it was fun. Well, I thought it was fun after I finally figured out how to make it! lol  You may want to have the crack open from the top. Somehow, in my brain it needs to open from the bottom. If you make one please show me I'd love to see what you come up with!!

Update: 3/21/2012
Guess what I just found while looking through my Spellbinders' Inventory list? That's right, nested egg shapes!!! Then we wouldn't even need a template whoo hoo:)

Valentine

I know that red is a traditional color for Valentines Day, but I'm not traditional, and I LOVE blue!!  It's been my favorite color since I was a very little girl. This card is for another Sister-in-law, and inside the card will be the teabag folder. I'm going to make a teabag folder for the tulip card below too.

Top is the outside of the card and the bottom is the inside.

This is the teabag folder, outside on left and inside on right.

Christmas

I've been working on several things the last few days.  I'm still decorating the last few pages of my card minder (previous post), had 2 more Christmas cards to make, a new size calendar, playing with my new stamps from Flourishes and updating my charts with new Prisma colors that came from Dick Blick. Whew.  I really wish I'd stay on ONE thing and finish it, but I'm so excited about these projects I just keep hopping from one to the other. I did finish this card.

I wanted a calendar that I could write a appointments on, but not a full size calendar (8 1/2 X 11). Since I couldn't find a template like I had in mind, I made my own on Microsoft Word. I haven't decorated it yet, but here is a picture of the layout.

 
This design fits on a half sheet of paper (8 1/2 by 5 1/2) and there is room for illustration on the side. I bound it using my spiral binding machine. Now I need to figure out some sort of cardboard stand so it will stay upright. If you are interested in this template, I'd be glad to share. Click Here